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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Ben Jonson

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON

Faces Home House
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON

Book Looks Reader
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON

Life Play Whole
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace

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